Dress-supporter.



'No. 702,456. Patented lune l7, I902.

R. F. MONTGOMERY. DRESS SUPPUBTEB.

(Application filed Aug. 19. 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERTA F. MONTGOMERY, OF BARRIE, CANADA.

DRESS-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 702,456, dated June 17, 1902.

Application filed August 19, 1901. $erlal No- 72,616. (No model.)

MONTGOMERY, of Barrie, in the county of Simcoe and Province of Ontario, Canada, (wife of Fred Myers Montgomery,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress- Supporters; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in that class of dresssupporters in which the skirt is supported from the waist or blouse; and the object of the invention is to construct this supporter of two independent and separable parts or members, one of which is adapted to be detachably connected to the waist or blouse and the other to the waistband of the skirt in such a manner that the skirt will be securely supported from the blouse or waist when the parts are assembled and to so arrange these parts that they can be easily and cheaply manufactured and quickly assembled or taken apart and will not injure the blouse or skirt when in use or when being attached thereto or detached therefrom, as hereinafter more fully set forth, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the lower member, and Fig. 2 is a similar view of the upper member.

Like letters of reference refer to like part-s throughout the specification and drawings.

The dress-supporter consists of two interlocking members a and b, respectively,vthe member a being intended to be detachably connected to the blouse 0r Waist and the member 12 being intended to be detachably connected to the waistband of the skirt. The member or (shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings) consists of a pin 0, pointed at one end and coiled at the otherend into aspringd, whose terminal is containedin the sleeves 0 and 'm and shield 19 of the rigid bark. The upper member consists more particularly of a rigid bar 70, the lower edge of one side of which is provided with an upturned hook-shaped lug or hanger lto support the member shown in Fig. 1, and the lower edge of the bar at the same end is provided with a horizontal sleeve 0, and in ment of the pin.

these sleeves o and m and shield 19 is contained the back end of the pin 0. The pin 0 above the sleeve on is bent substantially parallel with the bar and is coiled to form a spring at at the top of the sleeve m, the spring being protected by a shield 19, integrally formed with the top of the bar It, the opposite end of the top of the bar being provided with a hook q to engage the pointed end of the pin. The pin is passed through the material of the blouse or waist until the shield p abuts against it, when the pointed end of the pin is engaged by the hook q, the hook q and shield 19 preventing the lateral move- The member or bar it is made of a fine gage of metal, so that when in use its presence will not readily be detected on the dress. The bar it is formed with two plane portions 70 and 70 which are inclined at an angle to each other, so that the lug or hangerl will be presented at an angle to allow'for the contour or slope of the wearers hips orback as the inner side of the plane It is secured to the waistband of a waist or blouse by means of the pin, and the inner side of the planek projects outward, so as to allow the member I) to properly hold the skirt. The member?) is substantially the same shape as an ordinary safety-pin and is provided at each end with a shieldj to abut against the material ofthe waistband of the skirt to preventthe lateral displacement of the same. VVhen the members a and b are assembled,

the member 19 hangs on or interlocks with the hook Zof the member a, and they can be used without their presence being detected on the dress.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- a E A dress-supporter, consisting of an upper member, comprising a bar; having two plane portions inclined at -an.angle to each other, a hook-shaped lug or hanger depending from the center of the lower inclined portion, a

horizontal sleeve formed upon the edge of the said portion near the end, a vertical sleeve formed upon this end of the bar, a shield formed upon the upper edge of the upper portion at the same end as the sleeves, a pin having a. coil securely fastened in the two sleeves and a lower member to engage the skirt supand the shield, and a hook formed upon the ported by the lug or hanger of the bar. edge of the upper portion to receive the point- Barrie, July 31, 1901.

ed end of the pin, the shield and hook being ROBERTA F. MONTGOMERY. 5 upon the inner side of the bar while the lug In presence of or hanger and the horizontal and vertical F. M. MONTGOMERY,

sleeves are upon the outer side of the bar; 1 J. M. JAMIESON.- 

